What are your takeaways from this semester?
I really learned a lot and explored deeper on my existing knowledge in this meaningful and fun course. First, I have got many resources and website that I can use to improve my curriculum and technology skills such as Tour Builder, Google slides/doc, Adobe Spark, Kahoot, and all the website shared from everyone. I also learned lots of innovated thinkings from George Couros, Dr. Katie, and all other teachers sharing their thoughts in the IMMOOC. Lastly, the 25-hour challenge project gave me the opportunity to make my first-ever cake in my life. In this project, I not only learned how to make a dessert, but also improve my skills of finding authentic resources and the way of communicating with others. I think the biggest takeaway for me is to understand the power of sharing and learning from others. What will you do as a result? I always agree that managing a blog is useful and meaningful for both educator and learner. This course gave us the opportunity to become an expert of sharing. I will elaborate my class website and keep sharing and finding useful ideas from others. I will also apply some of the applications to my own classroom. For example, I just asked my 6th graders to create their own digital flashcard by using Quizlet. In addition, the improvement science project and the critical friends inspired me and helped me to realize that there is always lot more things I can do to produce better outcome. For example, instead of create and provide the materials to students, why don’t I give students the opportunity to create and monitor their own learning? I really appreciate all the assignments, which make me to think more and encourage me to try something new and different. How will you continue to learn and grow and an educator? I am an educator and also a life-long learner, so I will continue to learn and try new strategies to improve my teaching and also my life. Definitely I will continue to search and find meaningful resources, try new apps/website, and read the blogs from people around the world. I will provide students the opportunity to create their own learning, and I should always update my knowledge. I will continue to bake and also learn how to cook. And finally I will continue this program and earn my degree in order to have better abilities to contribute to the school and the education.
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I can’t believe that this is the last week of #IMMOOC. I sincerely appreciated to this program, George Couros, Dr. Katie, all the special guests, and the book “The Innovator’s Mindset”. They gave me the opportunity to think and reflect as a learner, and think deeper and more creative as an educator. The biggest two words I’ve taken away are “Change” and “Create”, and I would like to share some significant elements for me personally that make these two words happen. 1. Trust/relationship/risk-taker The trust and relationship between leaders and teachers are so crucial. Teachers feel supportive when leaders provide trust and freedom, so teachers are willing to take the risk to create something different and new to students. This is one of the biggest benefits in our school. I feel completely trusted so I can always apply my new ideas to my Mandarin class. The relationship between teachers and students are crucial, too. After participating in IMMOOC, I changed the way I communicate with my students. For example, two weeks ago, I provided a unit assessment that students were able to memorize two Mandarin lines (about the date and their birthday) and recorded their speaking by using Photo Booth. After introducing the assessment, many students responded, “This is so hard.” I responded them by saying “Hey, try change the way you think, instead of thinking it is so hard, you gotta think that you can do it!” Because I knew that they definitely CAN do it, but they just need some motivation, so I encouraged them to motivate themselves. 2. What is best for the learner? As an educator, I should always keep this question in mind. This is the concept of stand in one's shoes, and it really helps for creating something authentic, meaningful and fun. I was a student who experienced the ineffective learning in middle and high school. At that time, I always had some questions in my mind: “Why do I need to know this?” “What is this had to do with my life?” My reflection tells me that it is so important to create my own curriculum upon these questions. Therefore, I created many projects that students are able to apply the skills in their real life. For example, I taught the conversation about shopping and asked students to do a role-play; students needed to pretend they went to a Chinese-speaking store and bought items. After practicing in the classroom, we actually went to Chinatown to do some shopping in Mandarin. 3. Technology as an accelerator In the 21st century society, we are very fortunate that we have technology as a tool to elaborate and expand our teaching and learning to a wider perspective. By combining the technology to our curriculum and to students’ assessment, students are more engaged and empowered to have better achievements. Technology project-based learning is a great example. As mentioned in my previous blog, instead of giving students a set of questions or requiring them a way to do certain works, we provide them the options to create their own. “Less is more” is a quote from George Couros and I like it very much. Instead of showing them the long instructions or all possible problem, we let students to explore their own and come out and figure out their own questions. The other benefit of using technology is make learning networked. Students are able to share and get some different ideas from others. They are able to access and learn knowledge anytime, anywhere and with anyone around the world. 4. Strength-based learning & unleashing talent This point is especially crucial for me as a foreign language teacher. In my opinion, building a firm foundation is the essential process before building a tall tower. As George Couros mentioned in Innovator’s Mindset, you probably will think that you are truly a writer even though you know how to write, but you will never become a writer if you don’t know how to write. By the process of building up the foundation, teachers are able to observe students’ strengths, and take the next step to enhance and explore them. The projected-based learning, I believe, was a good example to promote strength-based learning. Students in the group collaborate and choose the part they feel they are good at, and each student is able to contribute by showing his/her strength and have better outcome than doing an individual worksheet or multiple-choice test. 5. How to measure the success. This is a big concern and one of the biggest focuses for this week. Is the grade A, B, C or F shown on the report card tells us the real progress of the student? My answer would be not really. If students completed what I have assigned, it is not too hard to get an A in my class. However, after a while of learning certain knowledge, I provided a short review game, and I discovered that many students had forgot what they have learned a while ago. I like the idea of students create digital portfolio, this is a way that I have never done before. I believe that this is a good way to let students be able to keep their own progress. They can also easily to recall the knowledge they learned in the past. They can also learned from others by sharing their amazing works. Teachers can also effectively check students’ progress by visiting their portfolio and give students feedback. Making good learning go viral is my dream. I am trying my best to let my students fell enjoyable and meaningful in my class. I know I am still far away but I will never stop. After participating in IMMOOC, I really changed a lot about how I think and how to make my teaching more powerful. My next step would be helping my students to change their mindset and give them the opportunity to do something amazing. Learning Mandarin might not be a subject for certain students to apply in their career, but I believe that the ways and the skills they’ve learned and tried will help them one day in the future.
The original live episode this week recalled my experiences of having technology issues in my own classroom. This (technology problem) seemed to be like an inevitable issue recently, and a big challenge for both educator and learner. My first time encountered the problem was I found a website for students to use to complete a worksheet I created, but when I asked students to open it in the class, the website kept showing not found. At that moment, I didn’t know what to do and how to move on. When I was felling frustrating, one of the students told me that there was another website that could do the same thing, so I said thank you to him and asked the class to go to that website. Afterwards, when I was going to do something with technology, I always prepared an alternative source/tool as my “Plan B”. That was my solution. In addition, this incident made me believe that students have so many potentials and possibilities in learning and problem solving. I really like and agree with the idea of “Less is More” by George Couros. No one wants to listen to a 2-3 hours’ presentation, which can be simply done in less than an hour. Moreover, no one wants to look at a presentation that includes hundreds of words in a single slide, which can be simply revised into one or two sentences. Focusing on the few key things, I believe, makes the idea become clearer, and students are more likely to stay focus and maintain their interests. In my own experience, I always try to provide simple instruction/direction, and give more time for students to do the research, create their own question, and figure out the solution through discussion. I could just tell them all the possible questions or solutions because I have done this for several years, but the word “create” and “Innovate” will never happen if I did so. Strength-based learning is an effective and meaningful way to help students unleashing their talent, and give them more opportunity to find their “dream job” in the future. As a foreign language teacher, it is important to develop all 5 essential skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening and communication), but it is more important for me to find students’ strength by providing the opportunity. “Mandarin jeopardy game” would be my best example. I created this Mandarin jeopardy game every time before the unit test. I provided 100 to 500 (point) questions in writing, speaking, listening, imaging, and three random questions. I divided students into three groups and had them to strategize the best way to win. Each group will send two people up to answer a question in each round, and each group will take turn to choose the question. Therefore, students have the chance to choose the skill that they feel the most confident in order to get the point. During this game, I can also observe each student’s strength. I think the example of vocational school would be the bigger picture of strength-based learning. Students are able to focus on the content they like such as hair designer, tennis player and art painter. I was really surprised the first time I know there are many “caddie” schools in America. The eight things to look for in today’s classroom are so crucial and I would say that I am developing seven of them. For example, I designed project-based learning for students to create and share their works to others, I provided different options of assessment and let students to choose which is best for them, I provided simple instruction and let students to think critically and create their own questions, and I asked students to give me/other students feedback after the project. The thing I haven’t done yet is to give students opportunity to self-assess. This is a crucial point that can let students to keep track on their own learning process, and sometimes recall the knowledge they have learned before. Creating digital blog is a good and meaningful idea of using technology to accelerate learning. This session brings up a question for me to think about: including the eight elements in the classroom is essential but it is also time-consuming, within the limited of time, how can we make sure that we go through all the required information along with providing all the elements?
Reading the Innovator’s Mindset and watching the weekly episode really give me the motivation to continually change my perspective, and think of some new ideas that I would like to try in my class. I love and admire Kaleb’s passion on teaching and learning. Passion, I believe, is one of the keys in innovator’s mindset, and I hope one day I can fully develop my passion in teaching and learning, too. There are many key words mentioned in the episode and strongly supported and connected to the examples on the book. The first key word is trust. The word “TRIP,” mentioned by Kaleb was so crucial, which the steps of progress, risk-taking, and process could not be happened without this word provided by our administrators. Dr. Katie also mentioned that it is important for teacher to feel supportive before making any changes or taking any risks. Asking for permission, I believe, would lower the interests and confidence for teachers who are trying to create something new. The second word is empathetic. For me, it is the foundation of creating something new. We first must truly understand the need of students. The questions mentioned last week “What’s best for the learner?” and “If I am a learner, do I want to do this?” are important for us to think about before taking any actions. Stand in one’s shoe is the perspective in education, and all other contents. Identification day and the opinion from Kaleb are the good examples for teacher and administer to understand our students. Sometimes certain students do not or do not have the opportunity to show their real talents in the classroom. By discovering students’ strength, we are able to create more opportunities for them to enhance and elaborate their skills. The third word is relationship. There is a Chinese quote literally said by Confucius, “If three walks together, one can be my teacher”, which the true meaning is that you can always learn from one another. Today, we can do even more than that. Working and thinking together are always deriving more power than working alone. This can also link to the idea of isolation that Dr. Katie talked about, and the “classroom teacher” mentioned by George. If we limit ourselves to a small classroom, it is less powerful and not effective. I like the word “Co-create” by Kaleb because it is so useful for us to build strong foundation together, and we can always challenge one another in order to reflect and make better achievement. George brought up many crucial points to build a strong foundation of innovation. To provide powerful learning is based on the meaningful thinking, authentic resources and creative thoughts and actual experience. Technology would be our tool of assistance. I create my curriculum based on the goal of develop students’ reading, writing, listening, speaking and interaction skills in balance ways. I think of the question “If I am the students…” all the time before designing my activities and challenging assessments. One thing I can improve is to provide alternative plans or options because I believe that students can learn and develop their ability by doing things in different ways. And if they can choose the way that I feel the most confident, they are able to enhance and elaborate their talents. As we all known that the traditional school is no longer effective and authentic to the learning in 21st century. The ideas and picture created by George and Sylvia gave us a clear view of the comparison of school vs. the ideal learning strategies we are striving recently. One thing in my mind after seeing the cute picture is “School” is where students listen to teachers; teachers listen to administrators (one-way) and “Learning” is everyone as a community and involving all the conversations (multiple ways). In addition, I really appreciate that the technology helps us to promote “Learning” we can now learning from everywhere, anytime and everyone. This “What if” question is the one that challenges me; in order word, my dream of being an educator. Like I talked about in the beginning, I admired the passion convey by Kaleb and I wish I can have my own in the future. There are frustrated things or obstacles happen and I produced the feeling against this question. Sometimes is extremely difficult because it does not just happen in teaching, but in communication with students, parents and colleagues, or the policies happened in the school and community. I am still finding my own way and trying to improve myself. This is a crucial one and also one of the most important parts this week. I agree with Dr. Katie that engaging students is not just to see how many hands are rising when we ask question. I reflected this point and think of a similar problem: What if students raised their hand is only because they want to get a good grade for class participation? This Engage vs. Empower topic really challenges me and changes my point of view. I thought students engagement as one of my goals; however, empower is the better word that truly can help students to not only participate, but to provide the opportunity to develop their skills for the future.
When I was a student, or even now, if I was reading the books that I have no or low interest, then I would read them very slow and barely absorb the information in the text. Honestly, I am not a book reader, but I am really amazed by the “Innovator’s Mindset” There were so many things that I do not know as an educator, and so many things that I would like to try and change for my own mindset. “Innovation is a way of thinking that creates something new and better.” --George Couros I like the example of Starbucks mentioned by George in the book because this is truly the example of innovation that our students can learn and apply in the real world. Maybe one day our students will become the owner or CEO of a brand new company or store. For me as an educator, my job is to provide the opportunity for them to build their foundation and get ready to take the challenge for achieving their goal in the future. There are many things that I am thinking about to change on the process of changing in my teaching. The most important thing is my way of thinking. This can link to the Prompt #2; we always need to remind ourselves the question “What is best for the learners?” George brought up another crucial question “If I am a learner, do I want to learn this in the classroom?” which help us to think from the students’ perspective. This is very helpful for me because I was the student who needed some motivation to learn and participate. Now I always recall this question when creating my curriculum. As a foreign language teacher, my goal is to develop students’ 5 skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking and interaction) in balance methods. Along with technology, I am trying to make some changes to approach my goal. For example, instead of providing the answer to the students, providing project-based learning, is an effective opportunity for students to develop their abilities through the content. In my “weather” unit, I asked my 6th grade students to do the weather forecast by using IMovie. This activity I believe included lot more skill than taking a unit test. Students have the opportunity to plan (how they should run the forecast), communicate (Who is doing what) and create (the script in Mandarin and materials). I believe that those skills can be developed through this Mandarin unit, and they can apply them to other subjects and in real life situation. After reading chapter 3, I have clearer vision of the characteristics of the innovator’s mindset, and I really like the drawing of it. One point that is crucial for me, and has being mentioned so many times in the live conversation by Dr. Katie, is taking the risk. As George talked about on the episode, risk taking is trying to move something that is no longer effective away from the traditional teaching. I believe that this is one of the components of innovation: to change or create something new that is better for the learners. However, failure is one of the obstacles that are inevitable. Giving up is the option that we must not ever consider. Instead, resilient is the key for helping us able to bounce back and recovered, and we should always reflect on what we did and how to make the better changes. The 8 characteristics are all connected and essential, and technology is a useful tool for us to make better changes happened.
I really like what Shawn Clark and Brady Venables did regarding to risk taking, and how they show the importance of leadership to support the students and teaching environment. Changing our thinking is the first step of growth mindset, and the next step should be taking the actions. I feel it really helps when an administer come to the classroom and teach and support both students and teachers. I will keep improving myself and innovate my teaching. I wish one day I can hear all my students saying “I can’t wait to go to Mr. Wang’s class.” It was fun and fortunate to watch the YouTube recording of #IMMOOC first week in the beautiful Sunday morning (sorry I couldn’t make it yesterday) as we know that learning, developing and changing are not just happening in the school day. I really enjoyed the conversation and truly learned many crucial thoughts. I would like to share some of my reflections in this event and at the same time trying to answer the prompts.
“The spirit of pirate” by Dave Burgess is a wonderful idea of changing and innovating. Education should not be narrowed or limited. Instead, it is like the ocean that is wide and we probably can’t see the destination. As an educator, we should be the pirates that willing to take the challenges and have the abilities to “change” when we encounters different conditions in different area. In my opinion, educators should be the captains to encourage our students to take the challenges, explore the knowledge, and always refresh themselves to the ever-changing world. The purpose of education is of course to help students to lean, but that is not enough. For me, I would try my best to help my students to find what they like, develop what they are interested in that can help them to apply and create what they have learned in the real world. There is not doubt that innovation and changes are essential in education. I’ve learned a lot from the conversation and reflected some points to my own experience. Like the title of the book, we should always innovate and change our mindset for understanding what is going on in the world recently, and what things to teach that help our students to learn effectively. I have mentioned some ideas in my #3 blog of how I change my teaching strategies to help students developing the essential skills of learning a foreign language. Changing the learning environment is also a good point from George Couros and I can recall what I experienced when I was in middle school student in Taiwan. The tradition class setup was all the desks lining up facing the board; students listened to the instruction, read through the textbook and took notes. This is one of the ways that need to be changed. In my class now, I always divide students into groups, which the sharing and discussion can be easily happened. In addition, by often changing the class setting, students feel more comfortable to learn as well as to develop the relationship with their teacher and peers. Of course this is only part of it; learning environment is not only in the classroom, but can be taken place anywhere. There were some important issues and concerns mentioned by both Katie Martin and George Couros that I have been experiencing recently. For instance, the positive and negative sides of blocking/limiting the media or websites in school are the big question marks. There are pros and cons of having this policy. I know that some schools block YouTube because they don’t want students to watch inappropriate stuff; however, they also block the information that is powerful and meaningful. It is such a hard decision to make! The other topic is the new students coming to adopt the system or style we have been teaching for several years. It is especially challenging for me as a language teacher. Changing and innovating are extremely important because the world is changing and the knowledge is widely expanding. In the 21st century, technology is the tool and major element to help and support us to make changes and innovate education. This is a long process that has to be planned in detail and upon a strong foundation. We should always be open-minded to try something different, but it does not necessarily means we need to do something that is fashion in order to fit the word “change”. “What is best for students?” is the question we keep asking ourselves, and I believe that the answers can be different every time. In my thoughts, I should try my best to motivate my students for trying something that they have never done before, to encourage them to embrace the change, and to help them create wider path of their future. “Learning a language should be fun and meaningful”
My learning beliefs are rooted in my mind four years ago when I was typing my teacher philosophy for my teaching position interview. The readings and videos support my thoughts, and encourage me to try my best to fully carry them out in my classes. I was an English (as a second language) learner nine years ago when I moved from Taiwan to Hawaii. I have many experiences, both positive and negative, of learning a second language. Reflecting on those experiences, they are very useful that help me to become a better language teacher. I always believe that learning, not only learning language, but also all the subjects, should be fun and meaningful, so students are willing to keep going, doing, and enjoying learning new things. There are many key elements that make learning meaningful. To help students keep learning and trying new things, we have to also be a life-long learner. After reading the introduction of Innovator’s Mindset, I was inspired by George Couros’ father, and I am so glad that I decided to continue my learning journey. As an educator in the 21st century, we need to keep updating ourselves and always provide the opportunity to change. One of my strategies of engaging students is to “change” my activities frequently with their personal devices. For example, in one of my sentence structure periods, instead of providing worksheet for them to write, I asked students to form the sentence by downloading my question PPT, and use a competition way to challenge them moving around the words and put them into complete sentences. In this activity, I saw students were engaged, motivated and enjoyed in learning the sentence structure, which probably is the most boring part of learning a language. I also saw how technology could help my instruction be fun and effective. It is a very good tool to build students’ interest. Project-based leaning through technology is a great strategy, too. Like VanderArk and Schneider mentioned in the article, project-based and digital learning help students to develop many essential skills such as critical thinking and communication. I’ve provided many project-based learning to my 6th graders. For instance, I asked students to make an IMovie to report the weather of a city in Mandarin. In this project, students need to do research on the weather, write their own script, design their IMovie and speak in Mandarin. Students have the opportunity to choose what they want and how they do. However, a thing always has the other side. I did experience some challenges of technology usage in the classroom. My biggest challenges so far is students bring different kinds (Mac vs. PC) and functions of laptops from home, and I need to help them to set up the application or software so they are able to access certain resources. This is very hard for me because I only use Mac and I have to learn how to run PC without having any PC computer. Develop my leadership skill is also my challenge and goal recently because I know that leader can do so many things to that help improve teaching, decision making, vision sharing and even the ability to work with the community. In addition, we can also be the role model of students, and help students to develop their leadership skills. I really love how Dr. Katies shared about her kids’ learning process and experience, I am very agree that we should inspired students by changing how we teach, plan, and run the class, and provide the opportunity for students to develop their abilities. I hope I can keep learning and create more learning strategies to keep or increase students’ interests of learning Mandarin. My childhood and adolescent learning process took place in my hometown-- Taiwan, where the educational system was very different from here. There were many poor learning experiences in my memory, and most of them were happened in middle school. Decades ago, Taiwan’s middle level education was focusing on passing the national exam, so students and teachers were always competing with one another in each homeroom and school wide. Teachers taught the class by asking students to read textbooks, copy the notes from the board, write worksheet, and taking the test everyday.
Reflecting on my middle school years, I considered myself as “completely disconnected”. I believed that the most two important things I did not get, or had not be given by the teachers were interest and motivation. First of all, I did not know the purpose of learning. For example, during the history class, “what did this have to do with me?” was always the question on my mind while copying down the notes from the chalkboard. I sometimes fell asleep and missed the notes, so I did horrible on the test. Similar to my English class, we were asked to read through all the vocabularies and sentences in the text. Although I knew that English was an important subject because it is the international language, I still learned poorly because I did not have any motive power. Even though I got a perfect English score in Taiwan National Exam, I was not able to communicate with people when I moved to Hawaii. I remembered there was one time I went to a clothes store and saw a shirt that I liked it very much, but I was not able to ask the clerk about my size and fitting room, so I walked away with sadness. My first significant learning experience that deeply branded in my heart was on senior year of high school. There was one class called “Career Life”, the teacher was nice and her instructions were interesting and useful. I remember that we were asked to dress up and do role-play on the interview, problem service and counseling. This was the first time I felt that I was able to apply what I have learned to the real life situation, as well as got the motivation to try different things during the class. In this class, teacher really provided the opportunity for students to learn about their lives, and to learn the knowledge by doing different activities. Another significant learning experience was in my Japanese level one class when I was at Kapiolani Community College nine years ago. The teacher always showed positive attitude and said encourage words to us. I felt very comfortable talking to her couple times for advising and for doing my oral test. She also provided many class and group activities to engage every students. For example, I had the opportunity to walk around the class and asked and answered, “what is your favorite hobby?” to all my classmates. By doing this activity, I was able to improve my conversation skill, make more friends, and obtain self-confidence. My Japanese teacher was one of my inspirations for being a language teacher. Learning should be interesting and useful for students who are learning a second or third language; I realized this concept gradually after moving from Taiwan to America. Now I am a language teacher in America, I am always keeping my poor experience in mind, and helping students to build their interest. I encourage them to participate in different activities, and to take the challenge by doing different assessments. I hope I can motivate my students to learn and apply what they have learned in the real world. Hello and welcome to my blog. It is very excited and fresh to share my thoughts and works in this comfortable space. It is also a great opportunity for me to improve my professional skills as an educator as well as a teacher in #Maryknoll School. One of our school missions is to provide a #21st century learning environment to our students, I believe that throughout this course, I am able to connect myself and make my step closer to my goal.
As we all have known, in this digital world, learning is not only from the books or teachers. For me, I always enjoyed learning by looking at the news posted online, and the current events shared by my friends on Facebook. I can always update the latest information by accessing to social networks. For making my students and parents connected to my class, I have created my Mandarin class website for student to keep track of their progress, and for parents to see the great examples of their children’s works. (Please check it out my Mandarin class site @ http://liyuwang.weebly.com/) I have also created a traveling blog with one of our high school teacher and two sophomore students last year when we were asked to teach English to our sister school in Wuhan, located in the central part of China. (http://maryknollwuhanenvoy15.weebly.com/) However, I still consider myself as a beginner. There are many benefits of blogging. After reading the articles from George Couros, I have deepened my impression. For instance, I can elaborate my writing skills because we need to think in a wilder perspective of how to appropriately attract audience to read our post, and we can also “listen” to other different voices from our audience. When the word description is not enough or not fully express my idea, I can share pictures or simply make a short IMovie to let my audience to have better understanding. Asking students to create the blog is also useful and beneficial. Similar to the idea mentioned, students are able to share their assignment or feeling to their peers and learn from one another. It is also a good way to assess them and provide feedback to develop their knowledge by using #technology. In addition, I felt I was the frog in the well after reading the article from Aaron Hogen about the usage of #social media. There are lot more things we can do through social network and we can develop our professional skills in a variety of ways. I can simply click the button [follow] to the people or organization that inspired me, and I can share my ideas to inspire others. Like Derek Sivers said in his video, “Some ideas are obvious to you but amazing to others.” We can support one another as an educator around the world. In this #EDCS480 course, I hope I can be fully “connected”. Sometimes I feel that being an educator or teaching is just a “job”. I really hope that education can become part of my “life”, and I can always connect myself to everything I am doing and striving. I would like to get more practice of using technology to truly feel the importance of making my students and myself to be a 21st century learner. As I mentioned in my previously, social media is a good tool for students to share feeling and learn knowledge; however, social media can also cause serious issues such as Cyberbullying and other negative peer influences. How to appropriately manage and include technology as part of my curriculum is one of the essential things for me to work on. Moreover, I would like to jump out of the well to explore more about social network especially for #Twitter. “Building students’ interests through learning” is one of my teaching philosophies as a second language teacher. I believe that including technology to my instruction, activities and assessments is a good way to support my quote. I am now in the process of learning how to elaborate my blog as both an education and EDCS 480 student. Therefore, I go online and search some educators’ blog especially for the middle level education. This websitehttp://www.learningfirst.org/user_blog/215 has many posts provided by AMLE sharing by lots of middle school teachers. "Ni Hao" (Hello) everyone! My name is Li Yu. I am a Mandarin Teacher @Maryknoll School. This is my family photo and I am the one with red T-shirt. Please check the link below to see my brief self-introduction created by using Tour Builder. "Xie xie" (Thank you) https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/tour/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgIDAuOyJ5QgM
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Li Yu WangMandarin Teacher @Maryknoll School |